Tag: Veera Ehrlén

In February 2023, a bibliography of Finnish sports journalism was launched as an outcome of a project carried out in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä. The site also presents key concepts and characteristics of sports journalism and sports media, as well as the history of Finnish sports journalism. Vi asked Veera Ehrlén to review the site. She applauds the initiative and the outcome, but she also highlights a few weaknesses, for instance regarding the treatment of female sports journalism.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France by Leah Stanley.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online by Veera Ehrlén (open access).

The mission of International Journal of Sport Communication is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information on the unique aspects and divergent activities associated with any communication in sport, through sport, or in a sport setting.